How to Use enfranchise in a Sentence

enfranchise

verb
  • Research from Denmark suggests enfranchising the young is a twofer: Parents are more likely to go to the polls if their teens who live at home do.
    — Jim Braude, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Antis feared that giving women the right to vote would enfranchise Black citizens.
    — USA Today, 24 Aug. 2020
  • In all states, people who completed prison sentences would be re-enfranchised.
    — Abby Vesoulis, Time, 25 June 2019
  • Not only did the Northern states enfranchise far more of their citizens than the Southern states, but a large share of the Southern population was enslaved and could not vote.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 May 2021
  • The true-state solution would enfranchise the Palestinians.
    — Daniel J. Arbess, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
  • Evidence of the new state’s division was revealed after Confederates, even those who had not sworn an oath to the Union, were re-enfranchised.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 21 June 2017
  • In fact, 20 other countries had enfranchised women before the United States.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
  • The bishop was a keen defender of English Jews, who were enfranchised by an act of Parliament in 1753, only to see the act repealed a year later amid anti-Semitic public protest.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The bishop was a keen defender of English Jews, who were enfranchised by an act of Parliament in 1753, only to see the act repealed a year later amid anti-Semitic public protest.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The election impact of re-enfranchising tens of thousands of new voters in a particular state is unclear.
    — Jon Kamp, WSJ, 10 May 2018
  • The two-year exercise of making Dust also succeeded in helping Wright feel re-enfranchised with co-writing again.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 22 June 2018
  • The two-year exercise of making Dust also succeeded in helping Wright feel re-enfranchised with co-writing again.
    — Gary Graff, Billboard, 22 June 2018
  • The Fifteenth Amendment, which enfranchised black men, was part of a calculation meant to produce more Republican voters.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
  • The Fifteenth Amendment, which enfranchised black men, was part of a calculation meant to produce more Republican voters.
    — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 3 July 2019
  • Local officials are fearful that enfranchising them would only bring fresh waves of migrants.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 May 2020
  • Debby’s work empowers the powerless, enfranchises the disenfranchised and gives voice to the voiceless.
    — Sheldon S. Shafer, The Courier-Journal, 27 Sep. 2017
  • If slavery has been destroyed merely from necessity, let every class be enfranchised at the dictation of justice.
    — Paul Ortiz, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • If slavery has been destroyed merely from necessity, let every class be enfranchised at the dictation of justice.
    — Paul Ortiz, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The Senate Rules Committee has marked up S.1, the omnibus elections bill, after wrangling over such topics as whether states should be forced to re-enfranchise murderers (sure!) and perpetrators of crimes against children (no, not them).
    — Walter Olson, National Review, 13 May 2021
  • Ultimately, Raskin argued, the question was whether to enfranchise the taxpayers of Washington, D.C.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2021
  • His decision has the potential to enfranchise some voters before the 2018 elections through a new clemency process, and may influence an existing campaign to amend the state's permanent voting ban.
    — Jane C. Timm, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The District of Columbia — both a city and pseudo-state wrapped up into one — could enfranchise 16- and-17-year-olds for all elections, from selecting members of advisory neighborhood councils to the next occupant of the White House.
    — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The full scope of the nationwide push to re-enfranchise the formerly incarcerated is difficult to assess because few states keep track of how many people with felony convictions register to vote.
    — Nicole Lewis and Andrew R. Calderon, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2021
  • The full scope of the nationwide push to re-enfranchise the formerly incarcerated is difficult to assess because few states keep track of how many people with felony convictions register to vote.
    — Nicole Lewis and Andrew R. Calderon, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • In the 1960s, another wave of reform enfranchised Black Americans and swept away legally enforced racial segregation.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Proponents pointed to last year’s elections, which set records for turnout as states emphasized mail-in voting during the pandemic, as evidence of how changing policies could enfranchise more voters.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Confirmed by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson — a seminal decision of 1896 that has long been considered one of the court’s least felicitous — the doctrine enfranchised the separation of the races in public facilities.
    — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • The statue was erected decades after the Civil War primarily as a symbol of white resistance to, and triumph over, federal efforts to empower and enfranchise former slaves.
    — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2017
  • He is credited with enfranchising the rural poor, but offended traditional elites and was eventually ousted in a coup in 2006.
    — Time, 26 July 2023
  • Comprehensively enfranchising migrants as urban citizens could lead to severe backlash from the urban elites—the constituency with which the CCP most closely aligns.
    — Damien Ma, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2015

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